UK Shoppers to pay deposit for bottles and cans in bid to cut waste - Sensationalist Headlines

Wouldn't be surprised if this moves to Scotland soon though. The Scots were the pioneers of this sort of system in a sort of way where Barrs (manufacturer of Irn Bru) would pay if you brought back your glass bottles of Irn Bru back to the store. They only recently discontinued it a few years back.

Complete and utter bullshit, we already have recycling in most areas and now they want us to carry our trash back to the shop. Well I certainly will not be doing it.

That's fine because you will be paying more to help clear it up.

Why should I pay more to help clear it up, I already recycle my bottles and cans. This is just basically punishing people because of a lazy few who don't recycle their crap. Well if that's how they want to do it then fuck them, maybe I should stop recycling entirely, afterall if it's costing me time and money why bother.

ugh german infiltration

I like the idea but in the region in Wales I'm in we have black bag limits of 1 per house per week and weekly recycling for split paper/card, glass, metal/plastic, food waste. Makes you realize it really isn't that hard to cut waste down, we only put out maybe half a landfill bag of rubbish every 2 weeks (And that's just down to it being stuff that isn't recycled like soft plastics), could probably get way with squashing it down and putting a single black bag out every 2 months to be honest.

I'm amazed the UK doesn't have this in place.

The bottle deposit seriously cuts down on the amount of broken glass from drunken bottle smashing, which, in my experience, is a pretty prevalent problem in the UK... Not saying you never see broken glass on the streets in Germany, but it's rare.

What an absolute child. Plastic recycling is hampered by the mixed nature of residential waste destined for recycling. This waste stream is usually sorted into metals, paper, and plastics at the recycling plant; paper can usually be recycled directly and metals are easily sorted, while plastics are often sent to the landfill or incinerated because it costs too much to sort them by type. By having designated points where only PET plastic bottles are collected, there is no need to sort the waste and recycling becomes viable.

Then don't recycle, your impact is negligible and we certainly don't care. Maybe your non recycled crap in the trash will help some poor homeless dude get a couple of quid extra. And by deciding not to bring your shit to the collection point you will be subsidizing other people recycling. So more power to you! As long as they make collection points available in plenty of locations I am very happy with this idea.

That's the problem they won't make it widely available, my nearest shop is a good hours walk away or 15 minutes on the bus, it might work in a city but out in the country where I live it's completely impractical. Instead of wasting money on fancy machines they should be spending it on making more recycling bins available or forcing manufacturers to use better containers like paper or biodegradable plastic, I'm not even sure we have the capacity to properly recycle plastic now that China have stopped accepting it.

I reuse most of my plastic bottles anyway so this is a non issue for me.